All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)

News Story

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trucks-crash-columbia-river-biggs-junction/283-070f2a38-fb9c-4e2f-9044-0a435eadbed0

~~Over a full day between~~ Only a few hours between the two accidents at the same location. Notable that both were hauling two trailers each.

The first truck was hauling two trailers and crashed just before 9 p.m. Friday when the driver hit an abandoned vehicle that was parked on the shoulder of the freeway, smashing through the guardrail and plunging into the river. The driver was able to swim to shore and was not injured, according to the Sherman County Sheriff's Office.

The second truck crashed just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday as emergency responders were on scene for the first crash. A semi with two fuel tanker trailers in tow struck an Oregon Department of Transportation vehicle, slid off the freeway and crashed into the river next to the first two trailers. Investigators said the driver likely fell asleep before the crash. The sheriff's office said the tanks were empty.

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

my first impression is it's a play on unity, that they are already going, but he is saying start whenever he wants to? Still, I can't really tell if they are in motion already... and he is at the front. So I'm confused.

EDIT: 5 months ago on Reddit, someone gave a better answer when I went looking on Google Search: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/124clhy/can_anyone_explain_this_gary_larson_cartoon/

“All religions are true but none are literal.”

A Russian claims on Facebook that he got a Twitter direct message in 2012 from Trump that started the whole Russia + Cambridge Analytica combo: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/

Major performance problems have been fixed in Lemmy in the past 48 hours, with more pending in the next 24. The latest code on GitHub is far better than 0.17.4/0.18.0 in terms of hammering the server.

The admin of Beehaw told me to post it on Lemmy.ml despite the message being that the server was down.

They say it was a DDOS attack:

Lemmy 0.18 (and earlier) has no ability to save the federation queue, when the server stops it forgets what it had in retry to send. I suspect the problem is more the other servers going down causing lemmy.ml to keep crashing on outbound content it is sending. There are hundreds of small servers out there subscribed to lemmy.ml's communities.

Lemmy is having growing pains and there are problems with internal tasks not updating the database correctly plus I'm sure individual instances would want to change some of these parameters to define what is 'active' in terms of age criteria, etc.

The lemmy_server code is not scaling well, lots of database contention.